(20 ILCS 3501/825-20)

Sec. 825-20. Financially Distressed City Assistance Program; Findings and Declarations of Policy. It is hereby found and declared that there exists an urgent need to reduce involuntary unemployment and economic stagnation within financially distressed cities and to create therein a more favorable economic climate for the development of new and improved employment opportunities for the citizens of such cities; that to address such need it is necessary to promote sound financial management and fiscal integrity within such cities in order to provide a secure financial basis for their continued operation; and that implementation of a financially distressed city assistance program under the provisions of this Act is declared to be in the public interest and for the public benefit.

(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)